--- title: "The LORD Does Not Relent" description: "This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand. “Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them: The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.” Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam" image: "" book: "Amos" bookId: "AMO" testament: "old" startChapter: 7 startVerse: 7 endChapter: 9 endVerse: 10 coversChapters: [7,8,9] aiTitle: "The LORD Does Not Relent" aiDescription: "This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand. “Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them: The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.” Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam" hasAiStory: true location: "Bethel" persons: ["God","Amos","Isaac","Jeroboam","Amaziah","Cushites","Israelites","Philistines","Arameans"] hashtags: ["judgment","famine","prophetic","idolatry"] genre: "prophecy" readingTime: 5 type: "adaptive" slug: "AMO/the-lord-does-not-relent" canonicalId: "AMO.7.7-9.10" chronologicalOrder: 906 relatedSlugs: [] prevSlug: "AMO/the-lord-relented" nextSlug: "AMO/a-promise-of-restoration" --- This is what He showed me: Behold, the [Lord](/persons/god) was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand. “[Amos](/persons/amos), what do you see?” asked the LORD.
“A plumb line,” I replied.
“Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them: The high places of [Isaac](/persons/isaac) will be deserted,and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste;and I will rise up against the house of [Jeroboam](/persons/jeroboam)with My sword.” ### [Amaziah](/persons/amaziah) Accuses Amos Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words, for this is what Amos has said:‘Jeroboam will die by the sword,and Israel will surely go into exile,away from their homeland.’” And Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah; earn your bread there and do your prophesying there. But never prophesy at Bethel again, because it is the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom.” “I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees. But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’ Now, therefore, hear the word of the LORD. You say:‘Do not prophesy against Israel;do not preach against the house of Isaac.’ Therefore this is what the LORD says:‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city,and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword.Your land will be divided by a measuring line,and you yourself will die on pagan soil.And Israel will surely go into exile,away from their homeland.’” ### The Basket of Summer Fruit This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit. “Amos, what do you see?” He asked.
“A basket of summer fruit,” I replied.
So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.” “In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!” Hear this, you who trample the needy,who do away with the poor of the land, asking, “When will the New Moon be over,that we may sell grain?When will the Sabbath end,that we may market wheat?Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel;let us cheat with dishonest scales. Let us buy the poor with silverand the needy for a pair of sandals,selling even the chaff with the wheat!” The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob:“I will never forget any of their deeds. Will not the land quake for this,and all its dwellers mourn?All of it will swell like the Nile;it will surge and then subsidelike the Nile in Egypt. And in that day,declares the Lord GOD,I will make the sun go down at noon,and I will darken the earth in the daytime. I will turn your feasts into mourningand all your songs into lamentation.I will cause everyone to wear sackclothand every head to be shaved.I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,and its outcome like a bitter day. Behold, the days are coming,declares the Lord GOD,when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. People will stagger from sea to seaand roam from north to east,seeking the word of the LORD,but they will not find it. In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst. Those who swear by the guilt of Samariaand say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.” ### The Destruction of Israel I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said:“Strike the tops of the pillarsso that the thresholds shake.Topple them on the heads of all the people,and I will kill the rest with the sword.None of those who flee will get away;none of the fugitives will escape. Though they dig down to Sheol,from there My hand will take them;and though they climb up to heaven,from there I will pull them down. Though they hide themselves atop Carmel,there I will track them and seize them;and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea,there I will command the serpent to bite them. Though they are driven by their enemies into captivity,there I will command the sword to slay them.I will fix My eyes upon themfor harm and not for good.” The Lord GOD of Hosts,He who touches the earth and it melts,and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile,then sinks like the river of Egypt— He builds His upper rooms in the heavensand founds His vault upon the earth.He summons the waters of the seaand pours them over the face of the earth.The LORD is His name. “Are you not like the [Cushites](/persons/cushites) to Me,O [children of Israel](/persons/israelites)?”
declares the LORD.“Did I not bring Israelup from the land of Egypt,the [Philistines](/persons/philistines) from Caphtor,and the [Arameans](/persons/arameans) from Kir? Surely the eyes of the Lord GODare on the sinful kingdom,and I will destroy it from the face of the earth.Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
declares the LORD. “For surely I will give the command,and I will shake the house of Israelamong all the nationsas grain is sifted in a sieve;but not a pebble will reach the ground. All the sinners among My peoplewill die by the sword—all those who say,‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’”

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